Example sentences of "because [pron] have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 2 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 3 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 4 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 5 | It 's about lifestyles that I 've lived and lifestyles that I respect and that I can speak for because I 've been there . |
| 6 | The boy answered , ‘ No sir , I really have n't had time because I 've been so busy working . ’ |
| 7 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 8 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 9 | Oh yes , I knew where he was , even though I 'd been unconscious going in and coming out , because I 'd been there before . |
| 10 | ‘ This is much harder to handle but I know what is required because I have been here before . ’ |
| 11 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 12 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 14 | Remind yourself why exams are necessary ( to measure student performance and to assess student potential ) , and why you are going to do well ( because you 've been reasonably conscientious and have prepared intelligently ) . |
| 15 | I think because you 've been very good today we 'll play a numbers game as well if we 've got time . |
| 16 | You just have n't heard about it because you 've been too busy . ’ |
| 17 | However , if the reason for the closure is that your employer has transferred his business to someone else , there may be no dismissal because you have been automatically transferred to work for the new owner ( see below ) . |
| 18 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 19 | The explanation faded into silence when Isabel recalled the way she had spilled water all over her patient because she 'd been so nervous of him . |
| 20 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 21 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 22 | So far she had felt very little because she had been well prepared , but she did not have the necessary audacity to simply whisk the cloth away . |
| 23 | She felt wickedly ashamed because she had been so cruel . |
| 24 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 25 | For Clarissa Grey , the summer had been memorable because she had been consistently happy . |
| 26 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 27 | You can not leave Heather , despite what you feel for me , because she has been so good to you . |
| 28 | ‘ And my mother still does not know about it , because she has been so ill . |
| 29 | ‘ Her progress will be slow because she has been so critically ill . |
| 30 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |